A color print of a cotton field with Black people picking the crops while, in the foreground, a White couple stands by a horse-drawn cart filled with cotton bales.

A Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi.

William Aiken Walker (ca. 1838-1921)

Date

1884
Object Type

Prints
Medium

Chromolithograph
Contributors

Printed by Currier & Ives

Published by Currier & Ives
Dimensions

Image: 20 1/8 x 30 1/16 in.
Sheet: 25 5/8 x 34 5/8 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
signed and dated l.l. on stone: WAW [monogram] alker, 1883.
machine lettered l.l.: PRINTED IN OIL COLORS, BY CURRIER & IVES, 115 NASSAU ST, N.Y.
l.c.: A COTTON PLANTATION ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
l.r.: COPYRIGHT 1884, BY CURRIER & IVES, NEW YORK
l.r. in graphite: 91598
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1970.199
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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